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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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